CO2 Capture and Storage:

ONGC’s Perspective and Plan

Workshop on CCS
January 23,2008
A B Chakraborty
ONGC New Delhi
Contents

• CCS and global concerns

• CCS– its relevance and inevitability
• Scope in up/mid stream oil and gas sector
• Processes involved
• Monitoring and safety aspects
• ONGC and CCS projects
• CCS– Indian prognosis
 Global concerns: Is CCS worth an endeavour?

 Divided verdict– Developed vs developing debate

 Too costly
 Insignificant short term return
 Zero incentive-- UNFCCC’s reluctance
 Long term efficacy
 Leakage potential
 Safety
 Global Initiatives: Can CCS be made worth the
endeavour?

 Extensive R&D for establishing long term efficacy

 Rigorous monitoring of established projects
 Benefits through EOR
 Supplement with incentives (recognition by UNFCCC)
 Making mandatory by law
 CCS– Is it relevant and important?

 Relevant and important if

 Fossil fuel remains the major source of energy; because
Only known process for long term mitigation
Only known process for large scale mitigation at one go
Only known process without possibility of manifestation of
CO2 at some other time and place.
 Irrelevant and unimportant if
Fossil fuel ceases to be the major source of energy

We are to decide.
 CCS projects-- Prerequisites

 Assured Source
 Technique to capture CO2
 Availability of a sink
 Technique to transport CO2 from source to sink
 Availability of effective monitoring system
 CCS– Scope in up/mid stream O&G sector

Prerequisites Possibility Reason/ Special case, if

any
Source Poor Except if there is a sour gas
source
Capturing Good Amine capture is a common
technique technique
Sink Assured All depleted reservoirs

Transport’n Good Transportation is one of the

technique O&G operations
Monitoring Assured Can undertake required
surveys.
 CCS– Scope in up/mid stream O&G sector contd.

 The scope of CCS projects are limited except for an

assured source
 Possible sources
 Plants processing sour gas
 Flue gas
 Tie up with other sector
 Processes involved

 Source identification
 CO2 capture
 Reservoir analysis
 Transportation to sink
 Injection
 Monitoring
 CCS– Monitoring and safety
 Reservoir monitoring to check leakage
Baseline survey prior to injection
Stimulated reservoir analysis backed up by regular and
reliable monitoring
Multi formation monitoring scheme is the latest
recommendation ( ground water, seismic, PVT , logging etc)
Surface facility monitoring to check
corrosion/scaling
CCS– Monitoring and safety contd.
 Safety issues:
Safe containment of CO2 underground over the project
life.
There should be no need to re demonstrate in the future
generation about safety aspect of a CCS site.
No storage site should be closed unless long term safety
assured.
A proper regulatory framework to be in place.
 CCS– possibility in ONGC

Limited scope
 ONGC– an up and mid stream O&G company
 Most reservoirs are sweet oil bearing

Possibility
 Offshore reservoirs as they have sour gas
 Flue gas from in situ combustion at Mehsana Asset
 CCS– ONGC experience

 Approved projects:
– CCS for EOR ( Hazira/Ankleshwar)
 Potential project
– CCS for disposal of acid gas (Uran)
– Flue gas recovery (Mehsana)
 CCS for EOR ( Hazira/Ankleshwar)

 Capture of CO2 from Hazira plant

 Source– Sour gas from B&S field of Mumbai Offshore(Hazira
Plant processes 40 MMSCMD of sour gas)
 Transport it to the mature (depleted) onshore reservoir of
Ankleshwar
 Inject it at S3+4 sand zones for enhanced recovery of crude
from the reservoir.
 CCS for EOR ( Hazira/Ankleshwar) contd

 Project potential
 CO2 EOR is feasible by injecting CO2 in the major oil bearing
sand zone under immiscible conditions.
 incremental oil recovery over the base case scenario
 6.9% of the in high case,
 4.5% of OIIP in most likely case
 2.25% of OIIP in low case.
 Project life– 30-35 years
 Net gain of 3.13 MMt
 CCS for EOR ( Hazira/Ankleshwar) contd

 Processes involved
 Sweetening of sour gas by amine absorption
Acid gas is the byproduct (97% CO2)
 Selective removal of H2S from acid gas by selective
regenerative amine ( modified LOCAT Sulphur removal)
 Dehydration and compression of CO2 at Hazira.
 Transportation to Ankleshwar through 12” dia 75 Km
pipeline (new pipeline with anti corrosive material)
 Recompression of CO2 to 160Kg/cm2 for attaining super
critical stage.
 CCS for EOR ( Hazira/Ankleshwar) contd

 Processes involved
– Injection of CO2 in 12 injector wells.( new wells required
with anti corrosive casing)
– Production of oil from 67 producer wells (new wells).
( Expected peak production rate is 770M3/day).
– Monitoring for leakage , safety aspects, scaling, sand
problems, corrosion
 CCS for EOR ( Hazira/Ankleshwar) contd

 Status
 Completed activities:
 CO2 Capture and dehydration studied: Can be operationalised
 Reservoir analysis

• Under completion:
 Transportation of gas
 Establishing surface facilities
 CCS in Uran

 Source
 Acid gas obtained from sweetening of the sour gas from MH and
N&H Assets processed at Uran plant.
 Issues :
 Absence of a nearby onshore reservoir,
 Low quantity of CO2 ( Uran only generates 0.2 MMSCMD of acid
gas, too low to consider offshore sequestration)
 Best available alternatives mulled:
 Supply of CO2 to nearby fertiliser plant to manufacture urea. (
there will be 25% increase in urea production).
 Flue gas recovery at Mehsana

 Source:
 Flue gas from in situ combustion at the Santhal and Balol
field Flue Gas Composition.doc
 Issues:
 Removal of Nitrogen
 Very low quantity of CO2.
 Best available alternative:
 Yet to be found.
 CCS– Its future in India

 India is a member of CSLF

 Undertakes R&D on CCS as per CSLF.
 Industrial synergy is imperative for better CCS
 Up/Mid stream O&G sector to hire/provide sinks
 Downstream O&G/ power sector to store/provide source.
 Excellent opportunity for up/mid stream O&G sector
CCS and synergy– future of
sustainable development

Thank you